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Human Computer Interaction (2025/2026)

Material for the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) course for the Master Degree in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Slides

• Introduction to the course
• Themes and projects overview
• What is HCI?
• Needfinding
  • Exercise text
  • Exercise developed together
• Analyzing and Synthetizing
  • Exercise
• Design Principles
• Intro to Prototyping and Low-fi Prototypes
  • Exercise on low-fi prototypes
• Visual Design
• Evaluation Overview and Heuristic Evaluation
  • Exercise on heuristic evaluation
• Design Guidelines and Patterns
• Interacting with AI
• Medium Fidelity Prototypes
• High Fidelity Prototypes
  • Options for Implementing (discussed in class)
• Usability Testing
  • Exercises

Assignments

• Assignment 1 - Needfinding
• Assignment 2 - Storyboard and Low-fi Prototypes
• Assignment 3 - Heuristic evaluation
• Assignment 4 - Medium to High-fidelity Prototype
• Assignment 5 - High-fidelity Prototype

Instructions and template for the final report.